Are you sitting at home playing games? Have you thought about how fun it would be to make that great game you are playing? Do you want a job that you will love and never want to give up? If you have answered "Yes!" to all three questions than maybe you should look into a degree in game design. I know, you're saying to yourself, "Who offers a game design degree in Baltimore, MD? Does the video game industry ...

Jeremy Arias, staff writer for the local Gazette in Silver Spring talked with Carrington Dennis who was part of our team this past Game Jam. Here are a few quotes from the article, and a link to the full article included! Boxes of pizza sat on the table and Red Bull was the drink of choice at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center on Georgia Avenue on Friday evening at the Silver Spring hub of the 2010 Global Game ...

In a turn of events late Sunday, each team was informed that no judging will be available at our location. This was very disappointing at first because the three teams that showed wanted to have their game crowned as "The Best Game". The moods of the Jammers did not change. We all took comfort in having finished what most consider possible portfolio pieces. We had created a game in 48 hours with very little ...

Today was the first day of the Global Game Jam, kicking off at 5pm. At first, BaltimoreGamer's staff plan was to just cover the event. But I Gabriel Pendleton, your BaltimoreGamer site President decided that was not enough. To give you an in-dept experience of the hard work, loss of sleep, and crazy obstacles put into each game I would participate and go through all the stress for the glory. The theme for t ...

January 22, 2010 - Baltimore, MD - The Global Game Jam (GGJ) an IGDA event, today announced that the countdown to the 2010 Global Game Jam has officially begun. The premier event promoting international game development and teamwork has also grown even larger to 127 venues as it becomes more global each day. As we count down to the start of the Global Game Jam 2010, anyone interested should be getting ready ...

Video games are complicated, fun , enjoyable, and they bring our community closer with competitive edge also. To produce a video game you must account for many challenges and than maybe after 3-4 years of development time you just might have a #1 hit for fans to enjoy. But, what if you had to create that game in 48 hours? Do you think you could handle that pressure? ...

Saturday I spoke with multiple teams involved in the Philly game jam. One of the teams called "DUI" (Developing Under the Influence) working on a game called Zeal. When asked "how long they have been working so far?", they explained that with no sleep, about 20 hours straight. The group also let us in on some of the software they are using to develop this game such as: coding in Angel, art in Adobe Photosho ...

#### Official GameX Press Release #### GameX Announces Spark Plug Games as Featured Game Developer Leading casual game developer demos titles at Northeast game expo Philadelphia, PA---October 12, 2009--- GameX (Games & Media Expo), October 23-25, 2009 in Philadelphia, today announced Spark Plug Games as one of the latest featured game developers to participate in the quickly-growing games convention. Sp ...